Introduction: Water, land and life -- 1. Australia's climate, global and local -- 2. Australia's geological history -- 3. Biodiversity -- 4. Soil - a non-renewable resource in serious trouble -- 5. Salt and the salinisation of soil and water -- 6. The
Murray-Darling Basin and river system -- 7. The Riverine Plain of the Murray Basin in New South Wales -- 8. Australia's grasslands -- 9. The five focal catchments of the National Dryland Salinity Program -- 10. Out of control -- 11. The tropical north -- 12. The arid rangelands -- 13. Mining and the environment -- 14. Forests and wilderness -- 15. Coastal and marine environments and the eastern green crescent --
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